(Adopted at the Ninth Session Executive Meeting of the People's Government of Shijiazhuang Municipality on April 7, 1989, promulgated for implementation by Decree No. 5 of People's Government of Shijiazhuang Municipality on May 26,1989.)
Chapter Ⅰ General Provisions
Article 1. These rules are formulated in accordance with General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China and relevant prescriptions of Regulations on Urban Private Houses and Provisional Rules for House Sale to Employees in Shijiazhuang Municipality issued by the State Council for the purpose of strengthening management of after-sale maintenance of houses and securing legal rights and interests of house owners.
Article 2. House sellers and purchasers shall abide by all prescriptions of Provisional Rules for Public House Sale to Employees in Shijiazhuang Municipality and these rules, with house sellers undertaking management of after-sale maintenance for public houses and purchasers complying with house sellers' management.
Article 3. House property administration authorities are responsible to monitor and examine the maintenance management of public houses sold.
Chapter Ⅱ Definition of Maintenance Scope
Article 4. Maintenance of self-using parts is the responsibility of purchasers.
Self-using parts are: for separately-using storied buildings and one-storey houses with single doors and single courtyards, all the equipments inside the courtyards (including the courtyard walls); for the apartments, the parts inside the public doors and the self-using balconies; and for the storied buildings with many rooms on both sides of a corridor and the one-storey houses with many households living in one courtyard, the parts inside the rooms and the affiliated constructions for the purchasers' utilization.
Article 5. The common parts and common equipments are to be jointly managed by house sellers and purchasers.
Common parts of storied buildings are: load-bearing structures, coverings, stairwells, common corridors and common lobbies, etc. Common equipments are: main water works and sewer pipes, down pipes, post-office boxes, rubbish chutes, common antennas and common lightings, etc.
Commons parts for the one-storey houses with many households living in one courtyard are: common courtyard walls, affiliated doorways, toilets and paved paths, etc. Common equipments are: main water works and sewer pipes, water meters, outdoor electricity supply lines and common lighting, etc.
Article 6. Operation maintenance and updating of supporting constructions and common installations are the responsibility of the original-managing units.
Supporting constructions and common installations are: cesspools, sewer examination wells, transformer rooms, high-voltage pump rooms, boiler rooms for heating, trunk routes of water works and sewers pipes, central heating pipes and gas pipes, elevators, etc.
Chapter Ⅲ Sources of Maintenance Funds
Article 7. Maintenance funds of self-using parts of houses sold are to be shouldered by purchasers.
Article 8. Maintenance funds of the common parts and common equipments are to be jointly shouldered by house sellers and purchasers.
From the date of selling the houses, houses sellers maintain the common parts and common equipments for three years. After the maintenance periods, house purchasers shall pay 10% of maintenance fees payable (in line with national maintenance standards) according to the houses' areas to house sellers, the rest shall be shouldered by house sellers.
Article 9. Maintenance funds for supporting constructions and common installations shall be provided by original channels.
Article 10. Sources of house maintenance funds:
(1) Keep charging depreciation charges and overhaul funds within five years after the houses was sold, and overhaul funds charged are to be taken as maintenance funds.
(2) Charge 10% of the income from house selling as overhaul fund.
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